tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post797513555318493779..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Alexi Has Some WordsMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-80751921993115482792014-07-08T19:14:09.400-07:002014-07-08T19:14:09.400-07:00The need to be patted on the back - "good boy...The need to be patted on the back - "good boy!" "good girl!" - is often a plaudit not for *accomplishing* anything good (which would require productive results you can use or eat), but for containing invisible good intentions. Having a mind filled with fluffy little things, and not the nasty evil intentions which stain (grimace with each term) "the right," the "corporations," "Bushitler," etc. <br /><br />This is a value benchmark for childhood. They seek the role of the good boy or girl, a child. We constantly encourage such of children because children don't have responsibility for the results for anything significant - and we emphasize being "nice" as their ticket to being approved. <br /><br />If at 20 you aren't a liberal, you have no heart. And if by 40 you aren't conservative you have no brain, Orwell remarked. It's not political, but the natural process of maturity. These lefty questers for good intentions (and enforcers of that benchmark on others) are fixated at that outgrown role. <br /><br />And their fixation on playing the "moral" role is alternated with finagling their way into condemning, finger-wagging, so that they can play at a parent scolding a child (when they scream at Jewish self-defense etc). This briefly expiates their feeling of unworthiness. Moral unworthiness, which is the engine driving their whole process. <br /><br />I would try to catch such people in their unconsciously reflexive child-goodness and expiation-seeking moment, and say unto them: <br /><br />"Realize that you don't need to prove your moral inner fluffiness, you are acceptable and upright as you are, and regard yourself guilty or stained in error. You don't need to wag your finger feeling like the self-righteous condemner to beat off angst. The angst itself can be recognized and seen through. You'll never look back. <br /><br />"As an aside, *results-oriented* positions will sudden have more relevance, dissolving the unhappy grip that these intention-based positions have had on your being. You'll have stepped into a more mature, happier, way to view many affairs of the world and much of life."<br /><br />I don't see much promise in allowing their pernicious dysfunctional motivation structure to remain active, while merely arguing the facts, tempting though it is.Westward Hohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704895359147693687noreply@blogger.com